TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- The latest mock draft released by a national website projects Alabama to make a little program history during this year's first round.

SI.com's Don Banks, who has reported on the NFL since 1990, sees five Crimson Tide players landing with teams by the end of the first round. That would be one more than it saw picked in the first round of each of the last two drafts and would make Alabama the fifth school to accomplish such a feat since 1967.

Banks projects the next three Alabama players to come off the board during the final 11 picks of the first round. He slots running back Eddie Lacy at No. 22 (St. Louis Rams), right tackle D.J. Fluker at No. 25 (Seattle Seahawks) and nose guard Jesse Williams at No. 32 (San Francisco or Baltimore).

Neither Brandt nor Kiper Jr. projected Williams, who declined an invitation to the Senior Bowl because of an injured knee, to land in the first round. CBSSports.com ranks Williams as the draft's No. 3 defensive tackle and projects him to be one of five at his position to land in the first round.

Alabama sent five players to New York for last year's first round, but only four were selected. Linebacker Courtney Upshaw slipped to the Baltimore Ravens, which selected him one day later with the second round's fourth pick (35th overall).